Don’t you know which clothes even fit me?
No I’m good I’m gone here, I’m still very much in Tokyo building things, not moving to Berlin soon(ish), actually moving to a new (hopefully amazing) place before the end of the month. I think I like Tokyo a lot after all, and the new place will certainly help. Clarifying things with my long time partner certainly helped too, it’s important to talk and say precisely where you stand in a relationship, what you think should be kept, and what should be changed, maybe I’ve learned to be more open? perhaps it’s called getting older.
Creatively, there is indeed a lot going on and I wish to give more details in the near future. I am working on two music collaborations that I want to talk about, I am also preparing a new mix CD (I know it sounds a bit silly to think it is of any importance, but it is to me, it’s the third one I do and the first one in five years, and I see it as a statement about the club/DJ scene, as always, perhaps more political than ever), there is new material being recorded as we speak, this time with collaborators (a long list of people will be involved but it’s much too early to give a “final cut”) for a release in 2010. I believe it won’t be a CD per see, but closer to a DVD or a gallery installation or a collection of videos, visuals are as important as sounds this time.
Talking of visuals and art, I am working to bring some artists I like from Europe to Japan to show their work, again it’s much too early to talk about details but it certainly feels good to have one foot back in the art world.
On the publishing front, expect more contents for Amusement magazine and some output with my partner in crime Alin Huma, we can’t help talking and working on books.
Hope your summer treated you well.
Antonin, Tokyo 9/8/2009
PS: You get older and the things you are good at become clearer and the ones you have been thinking about for a long time become viable options or disappear, and new ideas come into play. How did I do this? changes into I don’t know how I did this, but I wouldn’t do it this way today and it’s all very exciting and liberating. The fear doesn’t disappear, but it becomes softer, because you have done things and been to places and lived situations and you are not going back. You realize you have a lot to give back and a lot to pass and share to others and in the end it doesn’t matter if your friends make huge sums of money or fuck top models or drive Mercedes Benzes because there is no one else in the entire world doing what you are doing. No one can imagine what you will come up with next, and this is fucking exciting.